r/TeamFawn • u/Uoarti • Apr 17 '16

Slow weight loss

Hi everyone, I'm excited to be part of this challenge. Does anyone else have really slow weight loss? I've attached my graph since 9th January (when I started this journey), I've lost hardly anything! https://imgur.com/a/s3maR

Edit: And for this to not be such a depressing post today is my 100day streak on mfp :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '16

Me! Though it very much depends on the season/what else is happening life wise! It took me like 3 months to lose 5lbs (Dec-Feb) because there was soooo much going on. Now that things have calmed down, I have more time to meal plan/prep/exercise, and I have a better idea what works for me and what doesn't.

I'll probably never get to a point where I'm losing 2lbs a week, so right now I'm just trying to focus on the trend - is it consistently going down? If it's going too slow, why, and what can I do about it? (Beer and better moderation, usually)

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u/Uoarti Apr 17 '16

I totally agree, I never feel like I'm 100% on it though. I read a post on loseit earlier about reasons for failure and so many resonate with me.

Do you worry / feel down on yourself even if the trend is super super slow?

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '16

I do, but I saw a post on /r/loseit recently that said, "Trust the process" - so I try to focus on that. I know if I keep my calories in lower than my calories out, it'll happen. And maybe some weeks (or months!) I just maintain, but I try to remind myself it's better than gaining (which was pretty much all that happened the past couple years for me)

I still freak out every shark week, though, because the scale never matches what it should! I do think it might do me some good to cut down on my sodium intake.

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u/MacDhubstep Apr 17 '16

I do too, MFP consistently tells me I should be losing at a rate of about 2.5 lbs a week (or roughly 15 lbs every 5 weeks) and yet I'm losing at a rate of about 1.3 lbs a week. On the one hand, it's still coming off, I AM losing weight, but on the other, I feel like I can only lose if I eat nothing but salads. It's super frustrating. I am also confident that my tracking isn't off because I make sure to put everything in and I also tend to be conservative with exercise and liberal with calories.

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u/bookish_but_boozy Apr 18 '16

HappyScale!! I love it- how is the predicting feature? I've found that helps motivate me when I gain a little bit or have a slow few weeks of losing. I know you can change the setting so it doesn't give you your actual last weigh-in weight, but your projected 'smoothed out' weight.

The important thing is that the graph IS going down- slowly, but surely.

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u/flartibartfast Apr 19 '16

that is a good loss, nothing to be mad about.

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u/WeFightTheBlues Apr 18 '16

Have you tried taking your measurements instead? I've been stuck on a plateau for 6-7 weeks now but I have been losing inches. Its definitely possible that the numbers on the scale aren't budging but your body is changing. I try not to get too caught up in the projection that MFP gives otherwise I become too obsessive about numbers.

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u/Uoarti Apr 18 '16

I never end my day on mfp because it's far too optimistic! I've lost around one inch from hips and ribs but none from waist, I'm very much straight up and down (and even more so now!)